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Azure for Architects

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Azure for Architects

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services has grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also gradually increasing. Leading industry giants are finding that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements. This book will guide you through all the important and tough decision-making aspects involved in architecturing a Azure public cloud for your organization. The book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of cloud such as high availability, data management, and so on. Gradually, we move on to various aspects such as building your cloud structure and architecture. It will also include a brief description about different types of services provided by Azure, such as Azure functions and Azure Analytics, which can prove beneficial for an organization. This book will cover each and every aspect and function required to develop a Azure cloud based on your organizational requirements. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to develop a full-fledged Azure cloud.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

Scalability is an important and crucial architectural concern. Almost every application and every architect try to implement scalability along with availability and performance. Azure is a mature platform that understands the need of scalability for applications and provides scalability options for both PaaS as well as IaaS solutions. PaaS app services can be configured to auto scale and virtual machines can be deployed on a scale set to take advantage of scaling. Scaling can be up/down/out/in. Similar to High Availability, scalability is not an afterthought and should be part of the application life cycle development from the planning phase itself. Scaling can be vertical by increasing the size of virtual machine instance or can be horizontal in which additional servers are added to the existing set. VMSS provides a model that holds metadata information for the entire...